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Ike appointed five Supreme Court Justices, most famously Earl Warren. Warren was expected to be a conservative, but turned out to be very liberal indeed (although Eisenhower's comment about it being his biggest mistake may be apocryphal).
Ike died in 1969. He was seen for a while as a "do-nothing" President (wait, didn't he end [[The Korean War]]?<ref>Well, no - he stopped the fighting, but there's never been a peace treaty signed.</ref>), but historians now [[Vindicated by History|often place him in the top 10]]. He was very much a non-partisan kind of guy and probably the most moderate president of the last century.
He has an aircraft carrier named after him, and his place of meditation at his grave in Kansas is really cool. He changed the name of the presidential retreat from "Shangri-La" to "Camp David" in honor of his grandson.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' has Al Bundy attempting to prove his theory that his neighbor and [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]] Jefferson is actually a spy by challenging him to see which of them could name the most U.S. Presidents. Jefferson names several, while Al's only response to each is "...''Ei''senhower".▼
* Ike plays a minor role early in Darwyn Cooke's graphic novel ''[[The DCU|DC]]: The New Frontier'', mainly to represent the "old guard" before Kennedy's election at the end. He's slightly more prominent in a "special missing chapter" published a few years later, where he conscripts [[Superman]] to arrest [[Batman]] in a clever parody of [[Ronald Reagan]]'s role in ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]''.
* [[Indiana Jones]] told his Commie captors in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' that he [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|likes Ike]].▼
* He appears in the [[Meg Ryan]] romantic comedy ''I.Q.'', dumbfounding mechanic Ed Walters ([[Tim Robbins]]) in the process. "Ike?" Apparently a close friend of [[Albert Einstein]].▼
* As a humourous take on an instance of [[Name's the Same]], his campaign slogan "We like Ike!" was used in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' to cheer on [[Name's the Same|another guy named]] [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Ike]].▼
* In the ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' movie, Mr. Anderson is touring the White House. He stares at the portrait of Eisenhower lamenting "Where are you when we need you, Ike?"▼
* ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' referred to Ike's Earth-C counterpart, General (and presumably 1950s Earth-C US president) Eisenhowler, during Earth-C's version of [[World War II|D-Day]], which Zoo Crew team member Fastback was forcibly sent back in time to by the villainous Timekeeper.
* Ike appears at the beginning of ''[[Superman: Red Son]]'', first announcing the existence of Soviet Superman to the United States, and later privately lamenting the forthcoming [[Cold War]] escalation to his aides.▼
== Film ==
▲* [[Indiana Jones]] told his Commie captors in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' that he [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|likes Ike]].
▲* He appears in the [[Meg Ryan]] romantic comedy ''[[I.Q.]]'', dumbfounding mechanic Ed Walters ([[Tim Robbins]]) in the process. "Ike?" Apparently a close friend of [[Albert Einstein]].
* The Queen from ''[[True Blood]]'' lost her attraction to men during the Eisenhower years.▼
* ''[[Ike: Countdown to D-Day]]'' focuses on the planning of Operation Overlord.▼
* He briefly appears in at start of the 1985 sci-fi comedy ''[[My Science Project]]''.▼
== Literature ==
* In [[Woody Allen]]'s story ''Remembering Needleman'', an eulogy for the fictional academic Sandor Needleman, it's mentioned that he was dismissed from Columbia University for his disagreement with Eisenhower (who was the president of the university between 1948-53) "over whether the class bell signaled the end of a period or the beginning of another", which led to Needleman attacking Eisenhower with a carpet beater who ran for cover into a toy store.▼
* Eisenhower appears in ''[[The Longest Day]]'', making the fateful decision to send the invasion fleet to Normandy through questionable weather on June 6th. [[It Was His Sled|It works.]]▼
== Live-Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' has Al Bundy attempting to prove his theory that his neighbor and [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]] Jefferson is actually a spy by challenging him to see which of them could name the most U.S. Presidents. Jefferson names several, while Al's only response to each is "...''Ei''senhower".
* In the first episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'', Dr Cox checks on the state of an elderly male patient by [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|remarking]] that "Eisenhower was a sissy." He then jumps back and puts his fists up in defence. The patient's lack of response is taken as evidence that he is still comatose.
* He's mentioned in the ''[[All in The Family]]'' episode "Mike comes into Money":
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'''Mike:''' President Eisenhower said that.
'''Archie:''' He did not! Eisenhower was a great president who never said nothin'! }}
== Video Games ==
▲* As a
* In the 1998 [[Video Game Remake]] of ''[[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone 1998]]'', the American space army, the NSDF, is formed under his auspices. Included in the game's manual are an exchange of letters between him and the general in charge of the operation.▼
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[A World of Laughter, A World of Tears]]'', Ike suffers a heart attack before the election and the Republicans scramble for another high-profile candidate to draft, eventually settling on [[Walt Disney]]. This does not end well.▼
== Western Animation ==
▲* In the ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' movie, Mr. Anderson is touring the White House. He stares at the portrait of Eisenhower lamenting "Where are you when we need you, Ike?"
* During the 2000 Presidential Elections, Cartoon Network ran its own mock election featuring cartoon characters. Brak's campaign was a direct copy of an "I Like Ike" commercial, but with Brak pasted over everything.
{{quote|'''Brak''': Brak's my name and [[Shaped Like Itself|that's what it is!]]}}
▲* The Queen from ''[[True Blood]]'' lost her attraction to men during the Eisenhower years.
▲* In [[Woody Allen]]'s story ''Remembering Needleman'', an eulogy for the fictional academic Sandor Needleman, it's mentioned that he was dismissed from Columbia University for his disagreement with Eisenhower (who was the president of the university between 1948-53) "over whether the class bell signaled the end of a period or the beginning of another", which led to Needleman attacking Eisenhower with a carpet beater who ran for cover into a toy store.
▲* In ''[[A World of Laughter, A World of Tears]]'', Ike suffers a heart attack before the election and the Republicans scramble for another high-profile candidate to draft, eventually settling on [[Walt Disney]]. This does not end well.
▲* Ike appears at the beginning of ''[[Superman: Red Son]]'', first announcing the existence of Soviet Superman to the United States, and later privately lamenting the forthcoming [[Cold War]] escalation to his aides.
▲* Eisenhower appears in ''[[The Longest Day]]'', making the fateful decision to send the invasion fleet to Normandy through questionable weather on June 6th. [[It Was His Sled|It works.]]
▲* ''Ike: Countdown to D-Day'' focuses on the planning of Operation Overlord.
▲* In the 1998 [[Video Game Remake]] of ''[[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone 1998]]'', the American space army, the NSDF, is formed under his auspices. Included in the game's manual are an exchange of letters between him and the general in charge of the operation.
▲* He briefly appears in at start of the 1985 sci-fi comedy ''[[My Science Project]]''.
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